tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255342622259858062.post6560468154563913088..comments2023-11-03T04:45:08.951-07:00Comments on TEN POUND PRESS: MARCVS CRAPVLARIVS SCRIBITM.C. O'Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255342622259858062.post-3393352333954842032007-07-19T15:41:00.000-07:002007-07-19T15:41:00.000-07:00Laphroaig is a wonderful, intensely peaty malt. P...Laphroaig is a wonderful, intensely peaty malt. Phenolic, medicinal, like burnt rubber or old cigars! Great stuff. And this is the standard 10-year, although I have tasted the 15 and it is wonderful, too. The 30-year old is out of my reach. I understand the "quarter-casks" are the real deal, more wood per unit volume so a higher proportion of the 'maturation' flavors from the casks, be they the sherry/winey notes or the vanillins more associated with ex-bopurbon casks.M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255342622259858062.post-81554720155605583322007-07-19T15:15:00.000-07:002007-07-19T15:15:00.000-07:00Addendum: So there's a single malt from the isle o...Addendum: So there's a single malt from the isle of Islay, Laphroaig, which I have never tasted. Have you -- and does it deserve the devotion I hear about (especially for the 30 yr old aged in sherry casks)? NOCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255342622259858062.post-34188844359628478942007-07-18T13:28:00.000-07:002007-07-18T13:28:00.000-07:00So it comes down (pardon the direction) to 'Marcvs...So it comes down (pardon the direction) to 'Marcvs Crapvlarivs'....Methinks this smacks not only of the Latinate obsession of the author, but mayhap considerable indulgence in the miraculous George Dickel, prompting some slight pretentiousness in the nomenclature of initials interpretation/conceptualization. So to speak. (Either that, or could it be simply a sincere dedication to accuracy?)(hmmmm....) Entertainingly done, M.C. NOCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com